I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited ….

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle..

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification h….

Courage doesn't always roar..

If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to ….

Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other..

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..

Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent….

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.

When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it's over for all of us..

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals..

What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all thing….

Id rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman..

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism..

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water..

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers..

The human race has improved everything, but the human race..

It is up to us not to bury that potential we have..

Some things just have to be believed to be seen..